My channel is opless. Now what?
EFnet has a channel fix service, called CHANFIX. If your channel is made opless for any reason, CHANFIX will op the five most opped people in its database. The service takes snapshots of the network at regular intervals to see who is opped on every channel at that time. If none of the five most opped people are on, you will have to wait for one of them to come onto the channel. • Why can’t I join certain channels? There are channel modes which can be set in order to block people from joining channels. In alphabetical order, they are: • +b – Channel ban. Upon trying to join, you will get a message saying that you are banned from the channel. To get unbanned, you can try asking an operator of the channel to unban you (do a /names #channel, and find a chanop that way). However, if you are the cause for the ban, you might want to stop trying for a while. • +i – Invite only. Your message will say that the channel is invite only). A channel operator has to invite you. Again, you can try find
